RENOVICTION AND DISPLACEMENT VIOLENCE: THE NEW NEOLIBERALISATION FRONTIER OF THE SWEDISH HOUSING REGIME

This paper argues that the ongoing renovations of the old rental stock in Sweden produces severe displacement of low income households, and should be seen as the most recent wave of neoliberalisation and marketization of the Swedish housing regime. Further it is suggested that the renovations entail a severe circumscription of lawful tenants’ rights, but that the processes nonetheless are being supported by juridical bodies such as the Rent Tribunal. The combination of actors facilitating this process of accumulation by dispossession lends itself to the conclusion that not only the serious consequences on part of displaced tenants, but the process in and by itself present an emblematic example of structural violence.